Long before "going green" was mainstream, Dr. Seuss's Lorax spoke for the trees and warned of the dangers of disrespecting the environment. In this cautionary rhyming tale (printed on recycled paper) we learn of the Once-ler, who came across a valley of Truffula Trees and Brown Bar-ba-loots, and how his harvesting of the tufted trees changed the landscape forever. - Publisher. The Lorax is the story of a boy who's looking for answers. Living in a ruined town, this little guy wants to know the story of the Lorax, so he goes to the Once-ler, an elderly inventor/manufacturer. Doc Brown -- ahem, the Once-ler -- tells the boy how the town came to be ruined, and most importantly, what he can do to turn things around. Who exactly was this this Lorax character, what was it doing here, and why was it taken away? These are questions only a man name the Once-ler can answer. The Once-ler's last words to the boy: "Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack./ Then the Lorax/ and all of his friends/ may come back." - shmoop.com
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Children's picture books characterized by whimsical rhyming verse, imaginative creatures, and distinct visual design transformed mid-twentieth-century early reading literature, producing widely read classics such as How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Theodor Seuss Geisel, writing under the primary pen name Dr. Seuss, was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist who wrote and illustrated more than 60 books during his career.
Born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Geisel attended Dartmouth College, where he served as editor-in-chief of the humor magazine Jack-O-Lantern and adopted the alias Dr. Seuss. He pursued postgraduate studies in literature at Lincoln College, Oxford, and attended the Sorbonne, but left Oxford in 1927 without a degree to begin a career as a magazine illustrator, humorist, and advertising artist. He published his first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, in 1937 under the name Dr. Seuss. Over a career spanning several decades, his published works sold over 600 million copies and were translated into more than 20 languages.
Geisel's work is celebrated for its inventive cadence, anapestic meter, and expressive cartoon illustrations featuring surreal landscapes and fantastical animals. Beyond entertaining young readers with rhythmic tongue-twisters in works like Fox in Socks and constrained-vocabulary beginner texts like Green Eggs and Ham, his narratives frequently addressed underlying social and moral themes. His books examined environmental conservation in The Lorax, prejudice and social division in The Sneetches and Other Stories, and community responsibility and empathy in Horton Hears a Who!.
